Research in artworks: Building material

Vacancy

Carl Cesta, Vacancy, 2007
Artwork creator(s): 
Cesta, Carl (Persona Volare Collective)
Installation year: 
2007

Vers tissés serré

L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. © Marie-ClL'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. ©L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. © Marie-Cl
Created by assembling hundreds of glass jars, the installation Vers tissés serré sends visitors on a poetic journey through Montreal, with help from words by Gaston Miron, Pierre Nepveu, Jacques Braul [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
The Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Team
Installation year: 
2010

Vox non echo

Gilbert Poissant, Vox non echo, 1999
The round mural consists of three earthenware pieces painted with aluminum strips. It features two steel blue half-moons and a white square in the middle, along with a few touches of red and yellow. T [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Poissant, Gilbert
Installation year: 
1999

Wander

Derek Besant, Wander, 2005Derek Besant, Wander, 2005
Transit station 72-panel glass ceiling with text [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Besant, Derek
Installation year: 
2005

When The Forest Moves

Warren Quigley,  When The Forest Moves, 1995Warren Quigley,  When The Forest Moves, 1995Warren Quigley,  When The Forest Moves, 1995
The installation takes the form of three maple trees, with their burlap-wrapped root bags intact, situated at the end of a sculpted earth furrow which seems to have been dug out by the Northbound sc [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Quigley, Warren
Installation year: 
1995

White Reminder

Phil Morrison, White Reminder, 1995Phil Morrison, White Reminder, 1995
Sculpture in the shape of a bear. Text is carved into the structure. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Morrison, Phil
Installation year: 
2007

Wordlink

Karen Kazmer, Wordlink, 2001Karen Kazmer, Wordlink, 2001Karen Kazmer, Wordlink, 2001
Kinsmen Park New Washroom Building: The redesigned fieldhouse with washrooms incorporated sculptural chain link fence panels, stainless steel discs with sports action words bouncing around on them, po [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Kazmer, Karen
Installation year: 
2001

Words Heard Here/ Mots perçus ici

Marlene Creates, Mots perçus ici, 1995
Series of works in which the artist represents words heard in conversations during the event with locally-found materials. For example, the word "source" is written with sand, the word "theme" is made [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Creates, Marlene
Installation year: 
1995

[Windows - Théâtre Espace GO]

Windows Théâtre Espace GO. © Marie-Claude LangevinWindows Théâtre Espace GO. © Marie-Claude LangevinWindows Théâtre Espace GO. © Marie-Claude Langevin
Literary quotes are etched on the bay window of the theater's façade. Twelve rectangular window panes are mounted next to each other, repeating the same quotes. The text is written grayish letters. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Compagnie Espace Go; Gauthier, Éric